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1 So for my own delectation I began Wordsworth's "Leechgatherer"-
2 Was it his lordly thought to foster her talents for his own delectation and that of the few privileged?
3 Shall, then, this human heart live for itself; gather and store up for its own delectation , for its own good?
4 Examples of it are found wherever there are men who selfishly lay up treasures for their own delectation , and 'are not rich toward God.'
5 Our pretty country-women have such a habit of trotting around by themselves for their own delectation that you never can tell how to place them.
6 "For your own delectation if you will, miss; but as your protector I must ask you not to give it back."
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